The Social Science History Association announces the annual
President's Book Award of $1,000 for a new manuscript.
The prize is intended to reward an especially meritorious first
work by a beginning scholar. Entrants will be judged on the
criteria of scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach, and
methodological innovativeness, within the broad category of
monographs analyzing past structures and events and change over
time. SSHA invites studies of family and demography, popular
mentalities, political economy, state-society relationships,
electoral and legislative behavior, and the history of the social
and behavioral sciences. Other substantive realms may also be
represented. The Association includes in consideration
theoretically-informed accounts examined from quantitative,
interpretive, and other perspectives.
Manuscripts can be under consideration by a press at the time of
submission to the award committee but a book must not be in print
before the prized is awarded on October 12, 1996. A letter from
the press stating that the manuscript will not be published
before October 12, 1996 will be required.
The deadline for submission is July 1, 1996. A bound copy of the
manuscript should be sent to EACH member of the committee at the
addresses given below. You may contact the Committee Chair,
Martha Olney, via e-mail at molney@econ.berkeley.edu with any
queries, via snail-mail at the address below, or via FAX at
510-527-4558.
Martha Olney
Economics Department
University of California
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Ruth E. Wasem
CRS/EPW (7440)
Congressional Research Service
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-7440
Leslie J. Reagan
Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 South Wright Street
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Urbana, IL 61801
Robert McCaa
Department of History
Social Science 614
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0406
We look forward to your submissions.